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Bill	Medical evidentiary examinations: reimbursement.	Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish medical forensic forms, instructions, and examination protocols for victims of child physical abuse or neglect based on the guidelines for those forms as they relate to sexual assault. Existing law requires the forms to have a place for notation of specified information, including, among other things, the performance of a physical examination for evidence of child physical abuse or neglect.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1402	California AB 1402 (20232024)	bill	Medical evidentiary examinations reimbursement	enacted	Megan Dahle	5	24	7	2023-02-17	2023-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/53dc01ad-ed3b-4cb1-b988-a61060280276	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1402	a251e16977acde932e654bffd2f35c750b9b1656b919f63ae02584b14d787d3f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1402 (20232024) — Medical evidentiary examinations: reimbursement.

Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish medical forensic forms, instructions, and examination protocols for victims of child physical abuse or neglect based on the guidelines for those forms as they relate to sexual assault. Existing law requires the forms to have a place for notation of specified information, including, among other things, the performance of a physical examination for evidence of child physical abuse or neglect.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/30/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/13/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB1402 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/14/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1402 Megan Dahle Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB1402 Megan Dahle By Dahle — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Megan Dahle — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2023-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2023-03-30 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-03-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1774.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-07 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-02 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-08-14 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2689.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2023-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 841, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/53dc01ad-ed3b-4cb1-b988-a61060280276. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).